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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 401, NWS Tulsa, OK

August 19, 1995Cherokee County, Oklahoma

NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 3:04 PM CDT for Cherokee County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 19, 1995, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1995, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Tulsa, OK
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, OK

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2305 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1995-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTUL 192007 RRA
SVRTUL
OKC021-192030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
304 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TULSA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY
 
AT 303 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TAHLEQUAH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTH AT LESS THAN 10 MPH. LAKE TENKILLER IS IS THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
 
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
DURING THE STORM MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM LIGHTNING DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE
OR HAND HELD ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS AND NEVER
DRIVE ONTO A FLOODED ROAD.
 
KEEP TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER BULLETINS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 19, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 10:25 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
FPUS3 KTUL 191525
AFDTUL

EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
1025 AM CDT SAT AUG 19 1995

MRNG CONVECTION CONT ACROSS EXTREME E ZNS IN NW AR THIS MRNG. AREA
SDNGS QUITE UNSTABLE WITH SGF SHOWING IMPRESSIVE H7-H5 LAPSE RATES
AND 3200 J/KG CAPE (UNMODIFIED). WK MCON ACROSS S AND E ZNS SHUD
ENHANCE ACTIVITY THERE THIS AFTN...SO WL BOOST POPS IN THESE AREAS
A LTL. MAX TEMPS WL BE TRICKY AS WELL. CURRENT TEMP FCST FOR THIS
AFTN LOOKS GUD WITH ONLY A FEW TWEAKS PLANNED.

...10...

.TUL...NONE.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 1:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSALatimer46 min
Aug 19, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMuskogee, Sequoyah40 min
Aug 19, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPittsburg47 min
Aug 19, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee48 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.